Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has passed away: United Nations

Written by Nimrat Kaur -- August 18th 2018 03:59 PM

Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan has died at age 80, here on Saturday.

Mr Annan died in the early hours of Saturday in Switzerland after a short illness, according to a statement issued by his family. The Nobel Peace Laureate was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006, and became the first black African man to take on the top job as the world’s top diplomat. He was founder and Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation. The United Nations Migration Agency confirmed his death in a tweet, saying: “Today we mourn the loss of a great man, a leader, and a visionary: former @UN Secretary General @KofiAnnan. A life well lived. A life worth celebrating.”

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